Monika Cassens

{{Infobox badminton player | name = Monika Cassens | image = Monika_Cassens.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Monika Thiere | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1953|02|28}} | birth_place = [[Uebigau-Wahrenbrück|Prestewitz]], [[Bezirk Cottbus]], [[East Germany]] | height = | weight = | event = | highest_ranking = | date_of_highest_ranking = | current_ranking = | date_of_current_ranking = | country = [[East Germany]]<br/>[[Germany]] | coach = | handedness = Left | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's [[badminton]] }} {{MedalCountry | {{GDR}} }} {{MedalCompetition|[[Helvetia Cup]]}} {{MedalBronze | [[1977 Helvetia Cup|1977 Leningrad]] | Mixed team }} {{MedalCompetition|[[European Junior Badminton Championships|European Junior Championships]]}} {{MedalBronze | [[1971 European Junior Badminton Championships|1971 Gottwaldov]] | Girls' singles }} | bwfbadminton_id = 1522 | bwf_id = A1A95887-223E-4E6B-9C6A-D19BACD4C7C6 }}

'''Monika Cassens''' ({{nee}} '''Thiere''', born 28 February 1953) is a German former [[badminton]] player.

She started her career in Tröbitz. For this club she won 15 national titles. After her marriage to Claus Cassens, she changed to SG Gittersee, a badminton club in [[Dresden]]. During her career she won 101 international tournaments. She won 6 [[Polish Open (badminton)|Polish Open]] titles in a row in women's singles and women's doubles, and six titles in mixed doubles. In 1990 she won the [[Malta International (badminton)|Malta International]].

== References == *René Born: ''1957–1997. 40 Jahre Badminton in Tröbitz – Die Geschichte des BV Tröbitz e.V.'', self-published (1997), 84 pages. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110608033000/http://home.arcor.de/beutersitz/ Online version]) *René Born: ''Badminton in Tröbitz (Teil 1 – Die Anfänge, die Medaillengewinner, die Statistik)'', self-published (2007), 455 pages. *[http://www.badmintoneurope.com/page.aspx?id=12642 European results]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cassens, Monika}} [[Category:1953 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Uebigau-Wahrenbrück]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Bezirk Cottbus]] [[Category:German female badminton players]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Brandenburg]] [[Category:21st-century German women]] [[Category:20th-century German sportswomen]]